Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Kuk is a settlement at c. 1600 m altitude in the upper Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, near Mount Hagen, the provincial capital. The site forms part of the highland spine that runs for more than 2500 km from the western head of the island of New Guinea to the end...
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| description | Kuk is a settlement at c. 1600 m altitude in the upper Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, near Mount Hagen, the provincial capital. The site forms part of the highland spine that runs for more than 2500 km from the western head of the island of New Guinea to the end of its eastern tail. Until the early 1930s, when the region was first explored by European outsiders, it was thought to be a single, uninhabited mountain chain. Instead, it was found to be a complex area of valleys and basins inhabited by large populations of people and pigs, supported by the intensive cultivation of the tropical American sweet potato on the slopes above swampy valley bottoms. With the end of World War II, the area, with others, became a focus for the development of coffee and tea plantations, of which the establishment of Kuk Research Station was a result. Large-scale drainage of the swamps produced abundant evidence in the form of stone axes and preserved wooden digging sticks and spades for their past use in cultivation. Investigations in 1966 at a tea plantation in the upper Wahgi Valley by a small team from The Australian National University yielded a date of over 2000 years ago for a wooden stick collected from the bottom of a prehistoric ditch. The establishment of Kuk Research Station a few kilometres away shortly afterwards provided an ideal opportunity for a research project. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1160662024-04-14T13:03:32Z Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea Golson, Jack Denham, Tim Hughes, Philip Swadling, Pamela Muke, John Ecology & Evolutionary Biology History Technology Garden & Landscape thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WM Gardening thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WN Nature and the natural world: general interest::WNW The Earth: natural history: general interest thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVK Agronomy and crop production Kuk is a settlement at c. 1600 m altitude in the upper Wahgi Valley of the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, near Mount Hagen, the provincial capital. The site forms part of the highland spine that runs for more than 2500 km from the western head of the island of New Guinea to the end of its eastern tail. Until the early 1930s, when the region was first explored by European outsiders, it was thought to be a single, uninhabited mountain chain. Instead, it was found to be a complex area of valleys and basins inhabited by large populations of people and pigs, supported by the intensive cultivation of the tropical American sweet potato on the slopes above swampy valley bottoms. With the end of World War II, the area, with others, became a focus for the development of coffee and tea plantations, of which the establishment of Kuk Research Station was a result. Large-scale drainage of the swamps produced abundant evidence in the form of stone axes and preserved wooden digging sticks and spades for their past use in cultivation. Investigations in 1966 at a tea plantation in the upper Wahgi Valley by a small team from The Australian National University yielded a date of over 2000 years ago for a wooden stick collected from the bottom of a prehistoric ditch. The establishment of Kuk Research Station a few kilometres away shortly afterwards provided an ideal opportunity for a research project. 2023-10-05T10:55:27Z 2023-10-05T10:55:27Z 2017 book ONIX_20231005_9781760461164_1814 9781760461164 9781760461157 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/116066 eng Terra Australis image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1trkk6d ANU Press 10.2307/j.ctt1trkk6d 10.2307/j.ctt1trkk6d 975ba519-3ce2-4517-95bf-b847729fbcf1 9781760461164 9781760461157 open access |
| spellingShingle | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology History Technology Garden & Landscape thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WM Gardening thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WN Nature and the natural world: general interest::WNW The Earth: natural history: general interest thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVK Agronomy and crop production Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea |
| title | Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea |
| title_full | Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea |
| title_short | Ten Thousand Years of Cultivation at Kuk Swamp in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea |
| title_sort | ten thousand years of cultivation at kuk swamp in the highlands of papua new guinea |
| topic | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology History Technology Garden & Landscape thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WM Gardening thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WN Nature and the natural world: general interest::WNW The Earth: natural history: general interest thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVK Agronomy and crop production |
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